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PSALMS 137

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  1  The constancy of the Jews in captivity.
 7  The prophet curses Edom and Babel.


VERSE 1
- A.M. cir. 3463.  B.C. cir. 541. (Title.)
  The author of this beautiful and affecting elegy is unknown,
  but the occasion is evident; and it was most probably
  composed during, or near the close of, the captivity.

- the rivers.
   * Ge 2:10-14 Ezr 8:21,31 Eze 1:1
- there sat.
   * Ne 1:3,4; 2:3 Job 2:12,13 Jer 13:17,18; 15:17 La 2:10 Eze 3:15
- we wept.
   * Ps 42:4; 102:9-14 Isa 66:10 Jer 51:50,51 La 1:16; 2:11,18; 3:48,51
   * Da 9:3; 10:2,3 Lu 19:41 Re 11:3


VERSE 2 
 - we hanged.
  Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the
  Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of
  willows."

   * Ps 33:2; 81:2 Isa 24:8 Eze 26:13 Am 8:10 Re 18:22


VERSE 3 
 - For there.
   * :3 123:3,4 La 2:15,16
- a song.  Heb. the words of a song.  wasted us.  Heb. laid us
  on heaps.
   * :1 79:1 Ne 4:2 Jer 9:11; 26:18 Mic 3:12 Lu 21:6
- the songs of Zion.
   * Ps 9:14; 65:1 1Ch 15:27; 16:7 Isa 35:10; 51:11 Jer 31:12,13
   * Re 14:1-3


VERSE 4 
 - How shall.
   * Ec 3:4 Isa 22:12 La 5:14,15 Ho 9:4 Am 8:3
- strange land.  Heb. land of a stranger.
   * Isa 49:21


VERSE 5 
 - I forget.
   * :1 84:1,2,10 13 102:13,14 5 122:5-9 Ne 1:2-4; 2:2,3 Isa 62:1,6,7
   * Jer 51:50 Da 6:10,11
- let my right.
   * Zec 11:17


VERSE 6 
 - let my tongue.
   * Ps 22:15 Isa 41:17 La 4:4 Eze 3:26
- if I prefer.
   * :10 84:10 Mt 6:33 Ac 20:24 Php 1:20 1Th 3:7-9
- my chief joy.  Heb. the head of my joy.


VERSE 7 
 - Remember.
   * :18 74:18; 79:8-12 Ex 17:14 1Sa 15:2 Ho 7:2
- the children.
   * Isa 63:1-6 Jer 49:7-22 La 4:21,22 Eze 25:12-14 Ob 1:10-14,18-21
- Rase it.  Heb. make bare.


VERSE 8 
 - daughter.
   * Isa 47:1-5 Jer 50:42; 51:33 Zec 2:7
- who art.
   * Isa 13:1-22; 14:4-24; 21:1; 47:1 Jer 25:12-14; 50:1-64 51:64
   * Re 14:8-11; 17:1-18; 18:6
- destroyed.  Heb. wasted.  happy.
   * :6 149:6-9 Isa 13:3-5; 44:28 Re 17:5,6,14; 18:6,20
- rewardeth. etc.  Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which
  thou didst unto us.
   * Jer 50:15-29 Re 18:6


VERSE 9 
 - and dasheth.
   * Isa 13:16 Ho 10:14; 13:16
- the stones.  Heb. the rock.



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